instantiate

verb

Etymology: From Latin instāntia + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, instance + -ate.

1. To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.

   “To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.”

   “In the eighteenth century, this was instantiated in writings which developed the view that ‘savages’ exhibited more virtue and moral nobility than their conquerors.”

2. To create an object (an instance) of a specific class.

   “To instantiate a class, we call its constructor.”